Ice Spice has explained that her mother that was the main inspiration behind her upcoming album, which will be called Y2K.
In an interview with The Zane Lowe Show, which dropped on Friday (May 10), the “Munch” rapper explained that her mother’s look during Ice’s childhood was the inspiration for the vibe of her upcoming offering.
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“Thankfully, I had my mom, so growing up I’d see her really embody the Y2K aesthetic in its truest form,” she said. “It’s duck nails, it’s a tramp stamp. It’s brown lip liner no matter where you go. So thankfully I had her as my inspo growing up. And of course just like the internet, you feel me? Just like anyone else.”
Check out the full interview below.
Elsewhere in the same interview, Ice Spice admitted that she was “nervous” about sampling Sean Paul’s 2002 hit “Gimme the Light.”
“I was really nervous because we really wanted to have a very authentic Y2K sample in there, and Sean Paul, he’s legendary,” she said.
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“And that song alone, his ‘Gimme the Light,’ is so iconic that I was so nervous to sample it, because I’m like, ‘This isn’t going to get cleared, so what’s the point?’”
Spice remembered feeling a sense of relief when her sample clearance request was approved and praised the dancehall legend for being receptive to her homage.
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“Thankfully we got it cleared. Shouts to Sean Paul. He’s so real,” she added.
“Gimmie a Light” is the latest offering from Ice Spice’s eagerly awaited debut album Y2K, which will serve as her second full-length release following last year’s Like..? EP.
Prior to it dropping, she had been teasing its release for a while before finally releasing it to the public.
The previous single “Think U the Shit (Fart)” has only further cemented the 24-year-old as a hitmaker, cracking the top 20 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart while amassing over 25 million plays on YouTube alone.
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Named after both her birth year and the turn-of-the-millennium computer programming scare, Y2K is expected to be released later this year, though an exact release date has not yet been announced.
